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I think we can safely file this 2016 New York Times piece under the “we should have taken this more seriously” category: But pro-Russian voices have become such a noisy and disruptive presence that both NATO and the European Union…
Talking of trolling, the New Yorker published an interesting piece by Adrian Chen, looking at what happened when a pro-Trump Reddit-dwelling troll was suddenly brought into the glare of publicity when his Gif went viral — and his true identity was…
Are there strong psychological proedictors of the sorts of people likely to become persistent trolls? A group of scientists at School of Health Science and Psychology at Federation University in Mount Helen, Australia set out to find out, and they…
This is uncomfortable viewing. Men – volunteers – read out nasty and harassing tweets targeted at female sports journalist – to those journalists. It starts off much lighter than it becomes later on. And then the guys get really uncomfortable with what they…
